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There's No Crying in Baseball?
The continuing, colossal incompetence of Rob Manfred has somehow made him the face of the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal, and I'm sure Astros players and executives everywhere are OK with that. But there looms another name that will soon resonate more than any other: Mike Bolsinger. Who? Yep, exactly the point. Bolsinger is a former MLB reliever, one of hundreds who are trying to make it in The Show, and he's set himself up as the perfect showpiece for the nightmare that has unfolded in what has to be the worst scandal in the Major Leagues since the Chicago Black Sox threw the 1919 World Series. A little background: Bolsinger was pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays against Houston on Aug. 4, 2017. Audio recordings of the game found that the Astros' trashcan-banging system was used on 12 of the 29 pitches Bolsinger threw. He managed to get one out, gave up four runs, and was cut from the Major League team the next day. Bolsinger hasn't pitched in the MLB since, although he has toiled professionally in Japan the last two seasons. He filed a civil suit on Feb. 10, alleging the Astros had engaged in unfair business practices and negligence via a "duplicitous and tortious scheme of sign-stealing." In layman's terms, he was cheated. He has since included Houston owner Jim Crane and baseball operations staffer Derek Vigoa in the scheme. More on Vigoa shortly. If you're the cynical type, you can think what you want of this lawsuit: Maybe Bolsinger wasn't good enough to be a MLB pitcher anyway, or maybe this is just an opportunistic money-grab, or perhaps this will just get thrown out as frivolous litigation. But I don't think so. I prefer to see this as the perfect chance to crack open this case and see what we've been missing. There's a whole crockpot of crap stewing on this one, and I'm certain that Rob Manfred has been the ultimate crock-block. None of this scandal would be public if not for the print media chasing down the facts, but a lawsuit is a whole 'nother story. Early in the lawsuit process is the discovery phase, where legal information is exchanged between the two sides. You can't hide what you want hidden anymore. This is where Bolsinger's attorneys get to see all the damning emails and texts, and question everyone under oath. All that Rob Manfred's investigation found was what the Astros' players were willing to tell. Everything else we know was dug up by reporters from gutsy whistleblowers like Mike Fiers and Jonathan Lucroy. The real dirt? I don't think we've reached the real grime yet. Buzzers and bad tatoos, Derek Vigoa and the "Codebreaker" excel spreadsheets, cameras in the visitors' dugouts ... who knows where this will go? And when that stuff does come out, expect more lawsuits. Manfred has bumbled through this scandal with the grace and artistry of an unsupervised two-year-old with a box of crayons and some Elmer's Glue. Turns out, this was not a well-kept secret in the game of baseball. There are too many players who bounce from team to team for this to not leak. Manfred was always well behind the issue, working like the lawyer he is to mask the problems instead of getting ahead and stopping them. Jonathan Lucroy: "I knew about that two years ago, that it was going on. Everybody in baseball, especially in the division playing against them, we were all aware of the Astros doing those things." Lucroy was playing for the A's that year, as was former Astros' pitcher Mike Fiers, who revealed the dirty deeds. Lucroy alerted Oakland GM David Forst, who relayed the info to Manfred. And then ... nothing. "They didn't go through the whole investigation," Lucroy said. "It wasn't until Fiers came out publicly that they looked at it really hard." The firestorm sparked by Fiers and The Athletic put the MLB commissioner on the spot. He had to do something, so he suspended some executives, took away some draft picks and fined the team $5 million. No players were penalized. The 2017 World Series championship was not vacated, and Manfred trivialized the WS championship by famously calling the trophy "a piece of metal." Wow. "I don't know if the commissioner has ever won anything in his life," said Justin Turner of the Dodgers, who lost that 2017 World Series to the Astros. "Maybe he hasn't. But the reason every guy's in this room, the reason every guy is working out all offseason, and showing up to camp early and putting in all the time and effort is specifically for that trophy, which, by the way, is called the commissioner's trophy. "So for him to devalue it the way he did just tells me how out of touch he is with the players in this game. At this point the only thing devaluing that trophy is that it says 'commissioner' on it." Now imagine the Dodgers winning the 2021 World Series, and Manfred in the lockerroom presenting it. Priceless, huh? So let's go back to the Black Sox scandal of 1919, which threatened to bring down professional baseball. That's when the owners created the office of the commissioner to protect the integrity of the game, and named Kenesaw Mountain Landis to the post and gave him ultimate authority to protect the best interests of the game. A scowling, humorless sort, Landis ruled with an iron hand, unencumbered with the facade of protecting his job over the game itself. Baseball prospered. How will history remember Rob Manfred? Read the full article
All Cheating Isn't the Same
Major League Baseball has been at a crossroads the last several seasons to try and evolve the game. However, the desire to modernize while still saying traditional has put up roadblocks, while also being hypocritical. It has made it impossible to figure out what the heck is going on and it got that much more difficult to navigate with the Houston Astros cheating scandal.
What should have been a slam dunk, since it was so well documented, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred managed to absolutely botched when it came to punishing the Astros. 1st and 2nd round picks the next two drafts, $5 million dollars and one year suspensions for the coach and GM who were both fired. No punishment whatsoever, except for Carlos Beltran who wasn't even playing anymore, for any of the players who had just as big a part in it.
Losing the ring, the legacy (admittedly there will be a black mark), money, none of that has been taken away from any of the players. Pete Rose has been banned from almost all things baseball for gambling, did it really change the outcome of the game? The steroids era is still a massive black mark on baseball and the Hall of Fame. Using steroids effects the outcome and players are being punished in some capacity but nothing for the Astros. Maybe they'll be punished when they get to the Hall of Fame, but nothing while they play out their career.
Reggie Bush had his Heisman taken away, games were struck from the USC record, Tom Brady was suspended four games for Deflategate. There is precedent across all sports and yet almost nothing was done to Houston. Astros pitcher Francis Martes was suspended the whole 2020 year for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, but his teammates that cheated for post season success didn't get a thing. Rob Manfred absolutely whiffed on the whole situation and may have started the chain reaction that starts to tear down the traditional values MLB tries to hold dearly.
Current stars have not beat around the bush; Mike Trout, Kris Bryant, Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger have gone hard after the commissioner and the Astros. The comments have been so strong that Manfred has stated his frustration over the criticism to his lack of punishment. He sent himself to the bottom of the major four sports leadership and harmed MLB as all four leagues jostle for money and ratings, but as bad a time he's having the Astros may find themselves getting punishment from their peers.
The old boy sport that has the 'unwritten rules' will likely find themselves at the wrong end of them. I don't think anyone deserves to be hurt but it may be a bean ball year for Houston. There are lines being set for the number of hit batsmen they'll take and most have it somewhere in the 80's, one every other game. The Astros have lost respect among their peers and it isn't going to go away. It could get ugly and those 'old boy rules' may force a big change for MLB.
Steroids, look the other way until it becomes a non-sports concern. The reliever rule change for three minimum batters because of the pace of game needs to be changed, but cheating is fine. Absolutely changing the outcome of games, the playoffs and the World Series means nothing. The worst possible place to get caught cheating was met with the leadership of the MLB saying nothing done was enough.
Houston has already felt some repercussions from the other stars in MLB and fans have been banging trash cans during spring training and that's just the start. Maybe MLB will see and uptick in ratings as fans check in to see what happen to the Astros, especially on the road, but MLB damaged itself big time this off season.
The old saying is if you aren't cheating you ain't trying. There was outrage when Derek Jeter lied about getting hit on the elbow and admitted after the game he wasn't hit. It was gamesmanship. Steroids, sign stealing and now this? MLB's legacy was racism for a long time, they aren't alone in that, but the national past time still has its struggles. The only thing that rivals that is cheating. The legacy of baseball is cheating and Rob Manfred signed off on it to continue.
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3 Ways to Fix MLB's Speed Problem
Welcome to the 21st century, Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball!
The G.O.L. (Grand Old League) just enacted new provisions to speed up the game in an effort to appease attention-deficient millennials. It's about time that something's been done; we refuse to sit through another four-hour Yanks-Sawx Sunday nighter.
But Manfred hasn't done enough. We offer some better ideas to make the game more appealing to the Worst Generation:
The 'Vine' Rule: From the moment the pitchers receive the ball from the catcher, they have just six seconds to begin their next wind-up. If the pitcher does not do so in the allotted time, the pitch is considered a ball. Likewise, the batter should be in the batter's box ready to hit within the six seconds allotted. Please, MLB: Do it for the Vine.
Force the Reduction of Intra-Inning Commercials: Cut the idea of commercials between pitching changes and the tops and bottoms of innings to, let's say, three per game. Compromise, people. There's way too much time in between innings - the only people who benefit are fans in stadium with poor bladder control and ad execs. We don't need to see the same Bud Light, W.B. Mason, Joseph A. Bank, Cellino & Barnes, etc. commercials thrice in the same hour. The hooks are catchy enough to hypnotize us after one viewing anyway.
Bring Back Steroids: You didn't hear anyone complaining about the lack of excitement on the diamond when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were juiced up and gunning for Roger Maris's record, did yah? Yes, with the reintroduction of HGH and 'cream', there's an issue of integrity and a complication with keeping records -- but at the the end of the day, the MLB will be more concerned with upping ad revenue and viewership, both of which would increase if the home run records get threatened again. Barry Bonds is a villain, so why not make him a target? VIVA LA BALCO.
